Not trying to interrupt you Scurvy, forgive the apparent butting in!
Just to state, I unzipped it to the SH4 folder, and it said it was installed correctly, so I assume its working- however I havn't noticed a difference yet. We'll see how it performs.
It did Not affect the size of the saved games I could load. I had NO idea the saves were so huge. The biggest save I can successfully load is 2050 MB, before and after the patch.